LAMPEOLO&US. 477 



23-25 -n 



jgijg. Brown or olive above, paler or white beneath, the scales edged 

 with darker ; dorsal fin with a yellow border finely edged with blackish, 

 this border continued on the upper third of the caudal ; vertical fins 

 with numerous small round whitish spots. 



Total length 125 millim. 



Dr. W. A. Cunningtoii (C), 



19. LAMPROLOGUS FASCIATUS. 

 Boiileng. Tr. Zool. Soc. xv. 1898, p. 7, pi. i. fig. 2, and Poiss. Bass. Congo, p. 406 

 (1901); Pellegr. Mem. Soc. Zool. France, xvi. 1904, p. 293. 



Depth of body 4 times in total length, length of head 3 times. Head 

 2^ times as long as broad ; snout as long as eye, which is 3 times 

 in length of head and equals | interorbital width ; mouth extending 



Fig. 328. 



Lamprologus faseiaius. 

 Type (Tr. Z. S. 1898). f 



to below anterior border of eye ; 8 rather large canines in front 

 of upper iaw, and 6 in front of lower, followed by a narrow band of 

 minute teeth ; lateral teeth small ; cheek naked. Gill-rakers very short, 

 12 on lower part of anterior arch. Dorsal XIX 8 ; spines increasing in 

 length to the last, which measures f length of head and nearly equals 

 lono-est soft rays. Anal X 6 ; last spine a little longer than last dorsal. 

 Pectoral - length of head. Ventral reaching vent. Caudal rounded. 

 Caudal peduncle as long as deep. Scales 46 J^; lateral lines ^• 

 Yellowish, with 11 dark brown cross-bands, the first on the vertex ; 

 fins greyish, dorsal and anal edged with blackish. 



Total length 70 millim. 



Lake Tanganyika. 

 ^ rj. Kinyamkolo. Prof. J. E. S. Moore (C). 



